Improved water-pipe



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN, S. PATRIC, 0F VICTOR, NEW YORK.

iM'PRo-VED WATER-PIPE.

Specilicntion forming part of Letters Potent No. 50,154, dated September 2G, 1865i; autedated September 18, '1865.

'New York, have invented o new and useful Pipe for Water and other Purposes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description thereof, reference being Had teI the accompanying drawing,makitig part; of this specilication.

The drawing represents s portion of two or three lengths ot' this pipe, one end being shown in vertical section, with two or three coils of the inner hoop, G, removed to show how the coils cross.

-The nutrire of this invention consists in the employment of wooden hoops wound spirally around :t proper 'former in such a. manner .as to' feonstitute :t pipe suitzible to conduct water, sir, gas, dsc'.

' 'Io'emi-ble others to work. my invention, I will describe it in detail. 4

I use 1.tweedeh hoop, a., of suitable length 'ad width to form one length oi' pipe of u. de-

siredrv size. The hoops :tre steamed. and they e'dgesglued or cemented as they are being wound. The ends nre properly secured by screws or otherwise rtntil the coil is dry, after `which it they be lined with paper and a coeting of paint or coal-ter', which would render it sniciently impervious to conduct air or gos.

When very streng pipe is required, the

lengths may be coiled double, the hoops a crossing the hoops c, es seen in the drawing.

y The lengths A, B, and C are connected by hoops or hands b, which may be iin-.ide either ot' wood or iron and thelengthsjoined in glue;

Aor if the pipe is to be used forwater, hydraulic the hoops should he coiled with ai little space between theiredges thraughwhich to receive Y the drainage.

This pipe may also be used vto protect buried telegraph-wires.

What I claim as my invention, und desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The pipe composed 'ot' wooden hoops spirali y wound,substantiallyas shown, end for the purposes herein set forthc JOHN S. PATRICE. Witnesses WM. S. LAUGHBOROUGH,

WILLIAM BATES. 

